Untouchable Rules, India, 1920

Untouchable Rules, India, 1920

“Watering a man without breaking caste rules.’ For an Untouchable, a member of the lowest Hindu social class, the rules are many, with prohibitions on everything from physical contact with higher castes to drinking from central village wells.”

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Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams
National Geographic magazine

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